http://kotaku.com/video-games-blackness-problem-1686694082

Read the entire article, it's great stuff.

Video games have a blackness problem. This has been a known thing for a while, and we do talk about it from time to time. But I'd like to keep talking about it.

When they appear at all, black video game characters are often reduced to outdated, embarrassing stereotypes. It's commonly accepted that part of the reason for that is that there simply aren't enough black people making video games. Surely if that changed, video games' depictions of black characters would improve, right? What else might it take?

I've never played as a black video game character who's made me feel like he was cool.…


You can replace "video games" with "NeoGAF, and it still would be as effective.
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